Gauthier, JLe Mobilier Bas-Breton.Paris. Ch. Massin : No date @ 1930's Hardcover Each of the plates has Designer's stamp on them and is loose. Plates all collated and present. Quarto 12 pp text, 40 plates in black and white. From the Collection de l'art regional en France series. In French. Price:
60.00 USD

Gerevich, L.Towns in Medieval HungaryColumbia University Press 1990 Hard cover. Good Quarto 152 pp Translated by T. Szendrei. English Text Revised by P.C. McCulloch. Joint Publication with Akademiaai Kiado, Budapest, 1990. Preface by Bela K. Kiraly. Articles are "The settlement history of Gyor (Arrabona) in the Roman Period and in the Middle Ages," D. Gabler, E. Szonyi, P. Tomka, "The rise of Hungarian towns along the Danude," L. Gerevich, "The settlement history of Veszprem and Szekesfehervar in the Middle Ages," A. Kralovanszky, "The development and typography of Sopron in the Middle Ages," I. Holl, "Urbanization in the east-central part of medieval Hungary," A. Kubinyi. Price:
30.00 USD

"Gerssdorff performed nearly 200 amputations. He opposed Pare's abandonment of boiling oil for cauterization of wounds. The book contains some instructive pictures on early surgical procedures and includes the first picture ever made of an amputation." This is one of the copies that was bound in half leather and French marbleized paper athe bindery on Heinrich Kock, Tubingen, West Germany, and are numbered in arabic numerals 1-2300. Price:
100.00 USD

"This edition adds new material on reservation economic development, examining the role and importance of tribal sovereignty in this area where tribes are gaining ground economically, if not geographically. Legamized gambling, which has proven to be very lucrative for many tribes is also covered in more detail than in earlier editions." Price:
75.00 USD

Gilman, WilliamMelville's Early Life and Redburn.New York University Press 1951. Hardcover in DJ. Good Good, some wear soiling to dj. Octavo 378 pp " This new study of Melville's life from 1819 to 1841 shows the relation between his early years and Redburn, the book which seems to picture Melville's boyhood and youth." Price:
20.00 USD

Ginns, PatsyRough Weather Makes Good Timber - Carolinians Recall.University of North Carolina Press. 1977. 0807812889 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Oblong 189 pp Rough Weather Makes Good Timber includes chapters on The Land, Home Life, Food, Work, Cash Crops, Happy Times, Hard Times, School and Church, Social Customs, Travel, and Stories and Legends. Individual narratives cover such diverse topics as the cooking of possum and bear meat. The oldest person Mrs. Ginns interviewed was ninety-seven; the youngest, fifty-three. The earliest firsthand accounts date from about 1885; the latest reach into the nineteen forties. This is a book that documents customs and folkways that are fast disappearing.It is a sample of the cultural heritage of North Carolina, which its people have preserved for themselves." Price:
10.00 USD

Ginsburg, MadeleineThe Illustrated History of Textiles.London Studio Editions : 1995 1851704469 Hardcover in DJ Good Good Quarto 224 pp Color illus " Volume charts the history of textiles in their various forms, from the most basic weaves in rudimentary wool, cotton and silk, to the latest, most technologically advanced man-made fibers...." Price:
15.00 USD

Girouard, MarkCities & People.Pothecary 1986. 0300035020 Hardcover in dj Good Good Quarto 397 pp Color and black and white photographs 'Life In The English Country House' takes us on a tour of cities and their people through the centuries. Focusing on carefully selected cities at crucial periods in their history, Mark Girouard looks at their architecture and design in the light of the needs of the men and women who lived in them." Price:
15.00 USD

Girouard, MarkLife in the French Country House .Knopf 2000 0679427112 Hardcover in DJ Good/ Good Quarto 352 pp "Girouard has explored scores of French houses, as well as letters and diaries, inventories, and books of etiquette that gives us an intimate sense of what it meant to inhabit a French country house." Price:
30.00 USD

Engraved frontispiece depicting Saul and Samuel and additional engraved title-page showing supernatural events. With a last leaf containing an illustration of two stones voided by a child in Sweden with an advertisement on the verso. 3 small wood diagram engravings on pp 111, 113 and 199.

Includes: 'Dr. H.M. his letter with the postscript to Mr. J.G.', 'Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions The First Part....' ' Some Considerations about Witchcraft in a Letter to Robert Hunt, Esq.', 'An appendage to this first part, Concerning the Possibility of Apparitions and Witchcraft....' 'An Answer to a Letter of a Learned Psychopyrist Concerning the True Notion of a Spirit' Henry Moore, Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions The Second Part....' 'A continuation of the collection: or, An addition of some few more ... stories of apparitions and witchcraft' Henry Moore, ''A whip for the droll, fidler to the atheist ... sent upon the occasion of the drummer of Tedworth, in a letter to ... Henry More D.D.'. . Also includes 'An account of what happen'd in the kingdom of Sweden in the years 1669 and 1670 ... to some persons that were accused for witches ... .' which was translated by Anthony Horneck, 'A Relation of the Strange Witchcraft discovered in the village Mobra in Swedeland'.

Notations by previous owners - Sanderson (most likely) made corrections in the text in a few places where type was light or words missing most notably on pp 230 where he crossed the name out, put corrected name in also crossed out place name and put correct place name in. Starkey noted in ink pp 70 " This story gave rise to Mr Addison's Comedy The Drummer or Haunted House." A notation in pencil by another owner pp 170 " This....nothing of a steam engine.", Starkey noted in ink on the back of the title page of 'A Continuation...' " All the tricks in this relation were performed by one Jo. Collins as he afterwards (confessed?) (see?) an account of it in a book called "Anecdotes" in 2 volumes'."

"The book affirmed the existence of witches with malign supernatural powers of magic, and attacked skepticism concerning their abilities. The book strongly influenced Cotton Mather and was influential in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World is largely modeled after this book and its arguments. The book is also famous for telling the ghost story of the Drummer of Tedworth, an early poltergeist story." Wikipedia. Price:
5000.00 USD

Glick, ThomasIrrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia.Belknap Press 1970. 0674466756 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Octavo 386 pp. " Glick has drawn on original documents of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to present in this volume a thorough and lively study of Valencian irrigation and society." Price:
45.00 USD

Godfrey, ElizabethSocial Life Under the StuartsLondon Grant Richards: 1904 Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering. Some chipping of the head. Octavo 273 pp Seventeen chapters examining life in Stuart Britain from many aspects, including pastimes, plays, music, science and superstition, health, reading habits, religion to the problems arising from the divisions of the time Price:
20.00 USD

"This handsome book traces Indian art -- including architecture, painting, sculpture, and handicrafts -- from its origin in the late Stone Age to its most recent developments in our own time." Price:
15.00 USD

Goffen, RonaTitian's Women.Yale University Press 1997 0300068468 Hardcover in DJ. Good/ Good Quarto 342 pp Color and black and white illustrations. "Well-known Renaissance scholar Rona Goffen offers a new interpretation of Titian's secular paintings of women, setting them in the context of life in sixteenth-century Venice...Goffen shows how female images relate to Titian's professional self-image and to his concern with larger themes: matrimonial images are linked to the means by which women attained and relinquished visibility in Italian Renaissance society, devotional images introduce the paradox of subject matter with a sexual component that both stimulates and inhibits." Price:
150.00 USD

Gordon, RobertDegas.Abrams 1988. 0810981076 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Quarto 288 pp 324 illus, 121 plates in color. "Firsthand, eyewitness accounts of Degas and his contemporaries, unearthed from periodicals, letters and diaries of the period as well as three of Degas' own sonnets help bring fresh authentic light to this study. Taken together, text, pictures, and documents present as detailed a portrait as will ever ber drawn of this remarkable and brilliant artist." Price:
30.00 USD

Gostelow, MaryA World of Embroidery.New York Scribners : 1975. 0684142309 Hardcover in DJ Good Good Quarto 512 pp "From Afghanistan to Zaire, from Algerian stich to Zigzag, from an A.D.C. (H.M. Queen of the Netherlands) to Mrs. D. Zohrab, Mary Gostelow has ranged widely in order to compile this book. The first half describes the practice of embroidery in many lands, the second deals with stiTches and techniques (177 entries here, not counting stitch variations). " Price:
20.00 USD

Gowing, LawrencePaintings in the LouvreStewart, Tabori & Chang 1994 1556700075 Hardcover in DJ Good Good Quarto 687pp Over 800 color illus. "120 essays by a distinguished art historian represent a guided tour of more than eight hundred European masterpieces from the art collection of the world-famous Louvre Groundbreaking in its comprehensiveness and its reproduction quality, Paintings in the Louvre includes more than 800 European paintings, the most important masterpieces from the greatest collection in the world." Price:
35.00 USD

"The history of a great naval war reveals a wealth of interest and excitement unknown to the general reader. For most people the conflict between England and Spain in the sixteenth century consisted solely in the destruction of the Great Armada in 1588 by Drake, Howard, and the English weather.

These pages place that Armada in it true position, as only the most spectacular of many attempts by the Spanish to conquer England and make it Catholic, first by friendship, then by the marriage of Philip to Mary, and later by battle. A vivid summary is made of the disruptive forces in Europe that, thought thirty years, broke down the tradition of amity between England and Spain. It shows how, from the meeting in 1554 between Philip and Elizabeth the two maintained their respect for each other and a faÁade of peace long after the wish for peace had gone.

Although the clash of the two great fleets provides the central theme of this work, it makes clear that the defeat of the First Armada did not mean the end of the Spanish navy but rather its beginning on new lines. After 1588 England had only one other real success against Spain, at Cadiz in 1596. Spain launched three more armadas. " Price:
20.00 USD

Grant, MichaelReadings in the Classical Historians.NY Scribners : 1992 0684192454 Hardcover in DJ Good Good Octavo 686 pp An anthology of the great chroniclers of the ancient world includes selections from such early Greek and Roman historians as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Julius Caesar, Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus, and others. Price:
20.00 USD

Graves, RobertCollected Short Stories.Doubleday and Co. 1964 First (Amer.) edition so stated. Hardcover in DJ. Good/Good Octavo 323 pp "Reflecting Mr Graves's impish irreverence, glorious imagination and diversity of interests, the stories range from an illegal Christmas truce in the trenches of World War I to silly games and sudden death in the Antarctic, and apartment life in first century Rome." Price:
20.00 USD

Graves, RobertGood-Bye to all That. An Autobiography.NY Johnathon Cape : 1930. Hardcover. Good, fading to lettering on spine, some discoloration of cover. Octavo 430 pp Autobiogrpahy of author's early years at school and later as a member of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during WWI. Price:
25.00 USD

"Robert Graves's object in writing this startlingly original book has been to suggest that the scholars have been too summary in their verdict, too ready to dismiss the Bethlehem massacre, the Temptation and other puzzling incidents in the life of Jesus on the assumption that the early Christians were either credulous fools or wilful liars."

Highly controversial historical novel that took on Jesus's history far before the Da Vinci Code and with alot more scholarship. Price:
20.00 USD

"The troublesome reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (born B.C. 10, died A.D. 54), as described by himself; also his murder at the hands of the notorious Agrippina (mother of the Emperor Nero) and his subsequent deification, as described by others." Price:
25.00 USD

Green, Candida LycettThe Perfect English Country House.Pavilion 1991 1851455515 Hardcover in DJ Good, previous owner's inscription Good Quarto 175 pp. "This book is a delightfully informal laymen's guide to the evolution of the smaller English house - and much more besides." Price:
15.00 USD

Greenfield, Amy ButlerA Perfect Red.Harper Collins 2005. 0060522755 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Octavo 338 pp "Perfect Red recounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world's most precious commodities. Treasured by the ancient Mexicans, cochineal was sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors in 1519. Shipped to Europe, the dye created a sensation, producing the brightest, strongest red the world had ever seen. Soon Spain's cochineal monopoly was worth a fortune." Price:
20.00 USD

Greenhill, Basil edit.The Earliest Ships : The Evolution of Boats into Ships.Conway's History of the Ship 2001 1557502013 Hardcover in dj. Good Good Quarto 143 pp "This is the first volume in a 12-volume encyclopedia encompassing the historical, technological, and cultural aspects of the ship. The volumes are conceived to follow a strict chronological sequence, and this one deals with the early forms of water transport in different parts of the world, but predominantly in northern Europe. It examines how their development evolved in conjunction with the economies of the societies which built and operated them. Coverage also includes problems of reconstruction and the estimation of performance." Price:
25.00 USD

Griffin, John HowardLand of the High Sky.The First National Bank of Midland. 1959 B0007E6J7C Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Octavo 212 pp Mr Griffin presents not only a chronological history but detailed accounts of the daily life, foods and customs of the various periods and civilizations that populated the area (midland County of West Texas). Price:
25.00 USD

Griffin-Pierce, TrudyThe Encyclopedia of Native America.Viking 1995. 0670851043 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Quarto 192 pp "An exploration of more than 100 tribes from prehistory to the present day through stories, songs, history, biography, and photographs. Divided into seven cultural and geographic areas, The Encyclopedia of Native America explores the vast cultural wealth of Native America, from the Northeast and the Iroquois league, to the Southwast and the cliff dwellers. Drawing on a rich oral tradition of song, story and legend, Pierce tells of a history both ancient and ongoing. Illustrations." Price:
10.00 USD

Griffith, PaddyThe Viking Art of War.Greenhill Book 1995 1853672084 Hardcover in DJ very Good Very Good Octavo 224 pp "Paddy Griffith explores the Viking Art of war in theory and practice, addressing such questions as strategic mobility, operational intelligence-gathering, and tactical fighting formations." Price:
25.00 USD

Grimaldi, DavidAmber : Window to the Past.American Museum of Natural History Abrams 2003 0810926520 Softcover. Good Quarto 216 pp Illustrates the natural history of amber and its historical uses in art and sculpture with photographs and descriptive text. Price:
10.00 USD

' His father came from Switzerland and set up as a jeweler in London, where he fashioned George II's coronation crown... he became Paymaster and Adjutant of the Surrey Militia, a position he was unsuited for, since he kept no books and gave no receipts, with the result that the private fortune he had inherited from his father had to be used to make up deficits.

He published his Antiquities of England and Wales ... and The Antiquities of Scotland . Burns met him while he was in Scotland collecting material for his Scottish work...Burns took to this fat, jovial man with an inexhaustible fund of stories, and suggested to him that he should include Alloway Kirk in his forthcoming volume...

In June 1790, Burns sent Grose a prose witch tale with a variant in a letter to Grose, following it up with a rhymed version, the superb 'Tam o' Shanter'. Grose naturally preferred the poetic version, and 'Tam o' Shanter' was published in the second volume of Grose's The Antiquities of Scotland. Grose also inspired Burns to write the witty lines 'On Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland':

"Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny Groat's — If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it: A chield's amang you takin' notes, And faith he'll prent it! If in your bounds ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight O' stature short but genius bright, That's he, mark weel — And wow! He has an unco sleight O' cauk and keel...." Robert Burns Encyclopedia Price:
350.00 USD

"Pieter Bruegel the Elder began his career in 1551, at a period when Michelangelo was painting his last frescoes; and when death took Bruegel in 1569, at the summit of his achievement, the youthful El Greco had just completed his first paintings." Price:
25.00 USD

Gruber, RuthRescue: The Exodus of the Ethiopian JewsAtheneum 1987. Hardcover in DJ Good Good Octavo 234 pp "The plight of the Ethiopian Jews grabbed the attention of the world in 1985 when the revelation of a secret rescue mission dominated the headlines....until the public disclosure of Operation Moses-the daring airlift rescue of thousands of Ethiopian Jews to a haven in Israel-few people knew of this devout community who for centuries have continued to uphold the ancient Jewish traditions..." Price:
15.00 USD